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It's kind of their super bowl. lachlan had done a lot of sailing, and he eagerly signed up for the '98 race. >> he sailed on board the boat sayonara. >> they want to get all the crew on sayonara sitting up on the high side there, getting their weight right out. >> it was a beautiful day. and not long after the race began, there was a line of clouds like a black wall. there were wind gusts of close to 100 miles per hour, and the waves were enormous. >> is there anything you fear in life?

People to have a kind of competition among different executives. it's less normal for that to be the way a father pits his children against one another. but that's exactly what rupert set out the very public competition between his children for who was going to succeed him. >> in the course of this interview, i was curious to see what rupert murdoch's view was of his own children. so in the context of all of that, rupert said a few quite interesting things. he said among the three of them, it was very likely that lachlan would be the first among equals. that was the phrase he used, that lachla...

Was. >> prudence, murdoch's oldest child had seen this movie before . when he left anna for wendi deng, it echoed what he had done to her own mother. >> in fact, anna has out right called it an affair. rupert has denied this. he claims that rupert and wendi only started dating when he was fully separated from anna. the is a difficult having the media discuss things that are very personal, for example, the divorce of your parents? >> lachlan, james, and elizabeth felt some form of the trail and also thought they had someone who could be a competitor. the idea of a much younger wife, training in...

This rage among the fans, who suddenly are angry that their favorite players are switching leagues. >> and this was hugely controversial in australia >> rupert, you can never buy a rugby league. this is a guy that didn't want to be an australian, didn't want to be an australian. >> and basically it becomes a gigantic embarrassing flop -- a $500 million flop. >> go home to america. >> it's a major loss. >> i think it's been good for his education. i'm sure he's learned a lot. >> painful, hasn't it been? >> well, you are going to have some knocks on the way. it's good. i've taken plenty of knock...

Lachy, his nickname was almost universally. he is the nearest thing to royalty here. >> in rupert's eyes, any murdoch kid's world should be his world. >> and you see him pushing his kids into positions of great power very quickly, with no experience whatsoever. >> and then rupert puts young lachlan in charge of a venture. it's a huge challenge, and it's an opportunity to prove himself. >> ladies and gentlemen and friends, obviously we are disappointed. >> and it's a disaster. detect this: